Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Brown

Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse.

Carl Sagan

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Carl Sagan

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Carl Sagan

For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

Antoine Rivarol

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

Bertrand Russell

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

Bertrand Russell

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Bertrand Russell

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Bede Griffiths

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Becca Fitzpatrick

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.

B. B. King

God made Blues right after he made woman.

C. S. Lewis

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

C. S. Lewis

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Carl Rakosi

Friends are not made, but recognized.

Carl Jung

So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.

Billy Bob Thornton

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

Edward Norton

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Clark Kerr

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

In love there is no status quo.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Seth Godin

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Garry Kasparov

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

John le Carre

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Kofi Annan

The status quo cannot work.